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MR. G. NORTOtq has been appointed production manager of the Daimler group of companies.
Ma. MERVYN TALBOT has joined Associated British Oil Engines, Ltd., as Press and publicity officer.
MR. G. HOLMES has been elected :hairman of the Glasgow branch of the Institute of Road Transport Engineers. %IR. W. MORTON is 110fL secretary.
Ma. R. S. CHURCH. M.I.B.E., A.I.I.A., works manager, and MR. W. R. H. OTTAW AY , A.S.A.A., company secretary, have been elected to the board of Wingard (M.A.), Ltd. The other members of the board are Ma. D. J. BATTERSBY, managing director, and MR. H. R. ALLCARD, sales director.
Transport Vehicles (Daimler), Ltd., has appointed Ma. R, J. NAuEN as south-western area sales manager, covering Shropshire, Herefordshire, Staffordshire, Worcestershire, Gloucestershire, Wiltshire, Dorset, Somerset, Devon, Cornwall, and Wales. He has been with the Daimler group of companies for 26 years The south-western area sales office will be at 51, Queen's Square, Bristol MR. NORMAN GERRISH has become London depot office manager of the Avon India Rubber Co., Ltd. The following appointments as tyre representatives have been made:—Ma. GEORGE E. TARVER, south-east and south-west London: MR. W. S. Moar.E.r, north and east London; Ma. G. HIGGINS, Bedfordshire. Buckinghamshire. and Huntingdonshire: MR. G. HOLMAN, Oxfordshire and Berkshire; MR. D. SPEED1E, Kent District; and MR. JOHN MORTON, north of Scotland.
MR. F. J. DEAN, who was largely responsible, for a long period, for the construction of Duramin bodies, and was during the war employed on the
technical staff of Hiduminium Applications, from which .position he resigned last May, has since been acting as an industrial designer in the aluminium fabrication field. He has now formed a company, Aldean Designs, Ltd., 60, Marlborough Road, Parkland, Langley, Slough, Bucks, to handle this business, and it will specialize in the construction of aluminium bodies, submitting designs to clients to suit their purposes. Mr. Dean is managing director of this concern.
NEW SHOP DELIVERY SERVICE
A T a recent sitting at Darlington, the Northern Licensing Authority granted an application by Messrs. Shops Delivery Service, a new firm, for two B licences for vehicles to deliver parcels from retail shops to customers within a
five-mile radius of Darlington. The application was supported by Darlington Chamber of Trade and 17 local traders.
When objection was raised to the application, the Authority slid that he wanted to abolish queues outside shops, which were caused largely by the failure of shopkeepers to deliver goods.
BROCKHOUSE RESULTS GOOD
I)URING the past financial year, J. Brockhouse and Co., Ltd.; made a net profit of £86,289, which was increased to £107,936 by E.P.T. repayment. A final dividend of ln per cent. is to be paid on the ordinary shares, making 20 per cent. for the year. A balance of £202,909 is carried forward.
PEACE-TIME USE FOR BAILEY BRIDGES
A SUGGESTION that Bailey-bridge I—I parts should be supplied to county authorities to prevent traffic delays when emergency repairs were being made to permanent bridges, was offered, on November 22, at the conference of the Scottish branch of the Institution of Municipal and County Engineers, at Peebles.